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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snattlerake" data-source="post: 4163653" data-attributes="member: 44288">Used to be when the USB peripherals came out, USB ports failed en masse.  The computer might boot up but any devices connected to the USB wouldn't work.  Booting any computer required going into the boot sector then the BIOS or use an external drive.  That drive had to be designated an initial boot drive and had to be configured in the BIOS.  If it wasn't a designated first boot drive, the hard drive was usually first then a boot disk.USB mouse and keyboards didn't work as they were initialized farther along in the boot process.The old PS2 devices especially keyboards were like gold when you had to boot from the boot sector as they were initialized first before the boot sector and therefore before the USB devices.Ask me how I know.  I carried an old beat up PS2 keyboard for years going cross country to "fix" unbootable computers.One thing I never understood is why a Windows update would hose up a computer so bad, you had to get into safe mode to uninstall the update then reboot and the damn thing would run.Most of these updates were for some Uganda computer system anyway and the lack of the update wouldn't affect our system negatively.Now computers don't have the PS2 jacks and some don't even have a hardwired network port.Did ya hear the one about the inventor of the USB had died?  They lowered him into the ground, brought him back up, turned him around 180 degrees and lowered him back into the ground.</blockquote>

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